[5] His family returned to Brazil when Campos was fourteen, but he decided to stay in the United States to finish his studies,[5] since he could barely speak Portuguese and did not know much about Brazilian culture at the time.

[5] That same year, he played the male lead in William Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, directed by Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.

[9] In 2004, he joined the cast of FX's medical drama Nip/Tuck playing plastic surgeon Quentin Costa, who is later revealed to be The Carver, one of the two main antagonists of the show's third season.

[12] That same year, he voiced the character of Prince Naveen in the Disney animated film The Princess and the Frog, which went on to be nominated for three Academy Awards.

[15] In 2010, he made guest appearances such as on the supernatural television series Ghost Whisperer; on the medical drama Private Practice, on season 3 episode 15, playing the brief boyfriend of Charlotte King who is accused of abusing OxyContin;[16] and also had a recurring role during the first season of the comedy-drama series Royal Pains as Charlie Casey, the ex-husband of one of the lead characters, Jill Casey.

[18] In the early 2010s, Campos stopped doing television and film work and enrolled in law school[19] at the University of Michigan, receiving his J. D. in 2013.

[6] According to his profile, his work has involved "complex insurance recovery matters", as well as "claims presentation and mediation through disputes in courts and arbitrations.